It’s a moral imperative. What is NATO really for if not to stop the next Hitler from metastasizing? I don’t know how but this has to end with the demise of Putin and all that he stands for.
A drop of ricen is a lot less deadly and more effective than suiting up all the young men and women around the world for one more World War risking their deaths in horrific war ways along with nuclear devastation.It’s only fair to use his own tactics on him.Risky, but so much less destructive than the way we are headed. We found someone to take out Bin Laudin, we can find a way to take out the Butcher of Ukraine. Sounds immoral, please, he’s a war criminal.Did you see his little bomb experiment on the pregnant women at theMaternity Hospital and next chemical attacks.Everyone I know is thinking this, I just decided to say it. Take him out.There will be dancing in the streets.
First, I'm a big fan of history. When Rome stopped using citizen soldiers, and moved to a professional army, it spelled the beginning of the end of the republic because the Army was focused on who could pay them better, vs. citizen duty. It helps to have skin in the game. In addition the rise of racism and the divisions in this country appear directly related to that lack of a draft and uniform service. WW2, and Truman finally integrating the military out of desperation also helped create the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education and other changes. Failure to cross train with our fellow Americans isn't good for the issue of tribalism, ignorance, and allegiance to all 50 states. Second, I think isolationism and pretending that this isn't a replay of the 20's and 30's is overly optimistic. We don't have oceans to protect us from a slow start like we had in 1941. We ignored warning signs and clear messages that the world was about to blow up-mostly due to the huge gap between the "haves" and the "have nots". In uncertainty, people choose stability and the familiar pattern of blaming 'others" for their difficulties in life. It is happening again. We look at a world that is going to suffer tremendous climate migration, changes in water, starvation, and diaspora. War is coming. Prepare, and try to stop it rather than don't prepare, and then try to catch up. Russia has been falling back into Czarism for decades. There is not quick fix here.
War has taught us that we do not learn from war. No one here, or on the Western Front, all of Europe and parts of Asia wants war, except Vladimir Putin. We must, and can reach the Russian people. This could be technologies finest hour. Jam them, back door them, infiltrate “anonymously,”Surely we can “warp speed” what is happening to their family and friends in Ukraine to them. Hold Putin’s feet to the fire by his own people and then we can win this war. Repeat, repeat, repeat, the old ways just don’t work anymore.
Good luck with that. They interfered with our election, have gotten into our power grids, and we have no clue what else. Nobody can get close to him. Not his friends, not anyone. In the meantime he invaded now three countries in the last 15 years. Ignoring, appeasing, allowing him to slaughter people until we figure it out? Nope. There are too many moves on the chess board. He must be cornered by force. He thinks we are weak and that he is insulated. We need to make it clear that he has crossed the Rubicon.
Would you agree, Steven, that it's high time the West calls Putin's bluff and steps in to stop these atrocities. The question, of course, is how? But we simply cannot stand by on the sidelines and watch these atrocities being committed.
Here's a question: what happens - as is now suspected - when Putin launches a chemical attack? Will we continue to wring our hands in horror, but do nothing?
It’s a moral imperative. What is NATO really for if not to stop the next Hitler from metastasizing? I don’t know how but this has to end with the demise of Putin and all that he stands for.
I think we continue to underestimate this man. I would reinstate the draft and prepare for war.
A drop of ricen is a lot less deadly and more effective than suiting up all the young men and women around the world for one more World War risking their deaths in horrific war ways along with nuclear devastation.It’s only fair to use his own tactics on him.Risky, but so much less destructive than the way we are headed. We found someone to take out Bin Laudin, we can find a way to take out the Butcher of Ukraine. Sounds immoral, please, he’s a war criminal.Did you see his little bomb experiment on the pregnant women at theMaternity Hospital and next chemical attacks.Everyone I know is thinking this, I just decided to say it. Take him out.There will be dancing in the streets.
First, I'm a big fan of history. When Rome stopped using citizen soldiers, and moved to a professional army, it spelled the beginning of the end of the republic because the Army was focused on who could pay them better, vs. citizen duty. It helps to have skin in the game. In addition the rise of racism and the divisions in this country appear directly related to that lack of a draft and uniform service. WW2, and Truman finally integrating the military out of desperation also helped create the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education and other changes. Failure to cross train with our fellow Americans isn't good for the issue of tribalism, ignorance, and allegiance to all 50 states. Second, I think isolationism and pretending that this isn't a replay of the 20's and 30's is overly optimistic. We don't have oceans to protect us from a slow start like we had in 1941. We ignored warning signs and clear messages that the world was about to blow up-mostly due to the huge gap between the "haves" and the "have nots". In uncertainty, people choose stability and the familiar pattern of blaming 'others" for their difficulties in life. It is happening again. We look at a world that is going to suffer tremendous climate migration, changes in water, starvation, and diaspora. War is coming. Prepare, and try to stop it rather than don't prepare, and then try to catch up. Russia has been falling back into Czarism for decades. There is not quick fix here.
War has taught us that we do not learn from war. No one here, or on the Western Front, all of Europe and parts of Asia wants war, except Vladimir Putin. We must, and can reach the Russian people. This could be technologies finest hour. Jam them, back door them, infiltrate “anonymously,”Surely we can “warp speed” what is happening to their family and friends in Ukraine to them. Hold Putin’s feet to the fire by his own people and then we can win this war. Repeat, repeat, repeat, the old ways just don’t work anymore.
Good luck with that. They interfered with our election, have gotten into our power grids, and we have no clue what else. Nobody can get close to him. Not his friends, not anyone. In the meantime he invaded now three countries in the last 15 years. Ignoring, appeasing, allowing him to slaughter people until we figure it out? Nope. There are too many moves on the chess board. He must be cornered by force. He thinks we are weak and that he is insulated. We need to make it clear that he has crossed the Rubicon.
Would you agree, Steven, that it's high time the West calls Putin's bluff and steps in to stop these atrocities. The question, of course, is how? But we simply cannot stand by on the sidelines and watch these atrocities being committed.
Here's a question: what happens - as is now suspected - when Putin launches a chemical attack? Will we continue to wring our hands in horror, but do nothing?